I’m afraid you’ll find little comfort or confirmation from me. Science doesn’t do God or gods.
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Exactly, thank you! The only confirmation or comfort I wanted from you is your consistency.
If evolution created the creatures we see today, then there is no need for a creator god, is there? 94.5% of evolutionary scientists are atheists (the highest percentage among all disciplines) for good reason.
NOMA is lame-ass excuse. It’s simply a rhetorical strategy to get Christians like BroJoeK off your back with regard to evolution. Whisper the sweet nothings into their gullible ears and they’ll swallow evolution AND their creator fairy.
I didn’t say you have to be an atheist to be a scientist, I just said you can’t use science to prove or disprove God. Your position on God is a matter of belief, philosophy. I oppose abortion because I know a unique human being begins at conception. Science will tell me that. I believe it is important to honor and protect human life. I can’t prove that is a “good” belief or not. Science says what is, not what should be. I accept the Bible as a book written by many different sincere people. It is a mix of allegory, history and remarkable theology. It presents what I believe is a “good” way to live. I believe but I cannot prove.
I can go out in back of my house to the near mountain and tell you what rocks make it up, how they were formed, why they are layered and deposited and how old it is. That’s an entirely different undertaking than explaining my values.